Pot-scraper.



L. G. MEYER.

POT SORAPER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 28, 1911.

Patented Feb. 27,1912.

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I To all whom it concern:

Be it known that I citizen of the United of Davenport, county of Iowa, have invented certain" new and useful Louis C. MEYER, a

. Improvements in Pot-Sore. ers, of which the reference bein 'structed as to be especiall is a fulland. 0 car specification, had to the accompanying drawings, in w. ich-- U I Figure 1 is a perspective v ew of my rmproved scraper showing the most effective manner in which it may be grasped while in use; Fig. 2 is a bottom view of the scraper; Figs. 3 and 4 are manner of flexing the scraplrig portion of the device when operating on curved surfaces;'and Fig. 5 a detail plan View of a modified form of scraping e ge.

'Ihc'object of this invention 1s to provide a-simple scraping tool which shall-be so conefiiclent in scrapas are found in fully hereinafter following ing concave surfaces suc pots and kettles, as more set forth.

' I prefer constructingthe device out of a thin plate of steel whose side ed s are curved upwardly and toward each ot er the reater part of the length of the plate to orm, in a simple manner, ahandle a, the

other end of I the plate being left substantially fiat to form the scraper blade b. In the form of device shown in Figs. 1 to l inelusive the scra ing edge 0 is convexly curved and extended iagonal across the blade 6 thereby givingthe bla e a slightly tapered shape in plan View. The scraping, or forward portion of the blade I) is slitted longitudinally, the slits running from the scraping edge baclrinto the blade a suitable distance, thus converting the scraping portion of the blade into a series of thin resilient fingers d, which are closely adjacent to each other and preferably abut against each other along their longitudinal edges.

In using this device it is preferably grasped as shown in Fig. 1, with the thumb and second finger clasping the shoulders formed by bending up the plate and with the fore, finger bearing a proximately at the middle of the upper ace of the scraping blade. When thus grasped in the hand it is easyto apply the desired pressure and to twist the scraping blade in either direction as may be desired in scraping surfaces of varying curvature. When pressure of'the tates, and a resident Scott, and State of detail views showing the.

' tool this diagonal blade'and the blade isworking on a flat surface, the fingers remain-close together and the scraping edge acts asany other continuous scraping edge, but when operating upon concave surfaces the action of the scraper is essentially different from the ordinary type of scraper. In scraping these-concave sur faces the operator presses the scraping blade a inst the surface and. at the same time slightly twists the handle in one direction or the other according to the direction of curvature of the surface. When the blade is thus pressed against the surface andtwisted the fingers are caused to slightly separate at their, outer ends so that as they flatten against the surface bein scraped the present the outer portions 0 their side e ge's to the-surface and thus greatly increase the. effective scra ing capacity of the tool. When thus twists and flexed the side ed es of the fingers not only operate as in ependent' scraping edges but the scraping edge a proper of thetool continues to perform its notion though this scraping edge roper is of course broken up into a serieso short edges;' and although the fingers become slightly "separated when the tool is thus twisted they nevertheless abut against each other at their inner'portions and thus serve to brace or sustain each other, whereby they are prevented from being permanently bent out of position. VVhen thus pressed hard against the concave surface being scraped, it will be seen that these fingers really become independently operative so that each finger has a certain degree of independent adjustability to the surface being scraped.

I prefer that the main scraping edge 0 of the tool shall extend diagonally across the blade to thus give to the blade a forwardly tapering outline, whereby the blade is more readily flexed to the degree necessary to conform to the convexity of the surface being cleaned. It is within this invention however to have the main scraping edge extend transversely of the tool, as shown in. Fig. 5', butin this case it is desirable and possibly necessary in order to get thefull efiiciency within the capacity of the tool to have the slits extend obliquely from this edge. In the form shown in the other figures the slits also stand in a diagonal relation to the main scraping edge, and in both forms of the relation of the slits to teamm te, rare. 7

fore finger is notnwaa ion the the main scraping edge enables the scraping edges of the fingers to be brought into ac tion with the least twisting action or motion of the tool. It must be understood that it is not essential that .the fingers shall closely abut ontheir meeting edgm but simply that they shall lie sufliciently close together at their points of connection'with the main plate to render each'finger more capable of withstanding lateral strains than it would be if it were standing alone.

It will be understood that this invention is not confined totthe specific construction shown and described since the principle thereof may be carried outby various modifications.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure'by Letters Patent, is

1. In a tool of the class described, the combination of a handle and a scraper blade, the latter consisting of a thin flexible sheet of metal having a main scraping edge, said blade being provided with a plurality of slits running back from the scraping edge,

thus forming a series of independently yieldable'fingers arranged closely adjacent.

2. A scraper for pots, etc., consisting-of a handle and a thin flexible metal scraping blade having a main scraping edge extending diagonally acrossthe blade, this scraping edge being divided up into a series of independently flexible fingers by a series of slits runnlng back from-the edge at an.

- oblique angle to said edge. In testimony whereof I hereunto ai'fix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

LOUIS G. MEYER.

Witnesses:

NOLA M. DELLET'I, R. B. NEWTON. 

